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Indonesian government to purchase 10,000 tons of rubber from farmers

Indonesia's Public Works and Public Housing Ministry plans to purchase 10,000 tons of rubber from farmers for use ...

Drug trafficking remains serious concern in North Sumatra

Drug trafficking continues to be a major threat in North Sumatra with the number of drug users projected to reach ...

Labor-intensive program to help maintain rural economic growth

Expansion of the labor-intensive program is projected to compensate for the impact of economic slowdown in rural areas ...

Use of village funds prioritized for COVID-19 efforts: official

The Indonesian Government is prioritizing the use of village funds, allocated from state and regional budgets, for ...

Makassar city government ensures sufficient rice stocks until Oct 2020

The food security authority in Makassar, South Sulawesi Province’s capital, has provided 110 tons of rice to ...

Indonesian Govt to intensify labor-intensive infrastructure projects

The Indonesian government will intensify manpower-intensive infrastructure projects in different parts of Indonesia to ...

South Sulawesi to quarantine visitors for 14 days

South Sulawesi Governor HM Nurdin Abdullah has ordered local authorities across the province to quarantine all visitors ...

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Indonesia builds hospitals, quarantine centers in handling COVID-19

Indonesia's government has expedited efforts to ready emergency hospitals and quarantine centers by constructing ...

Village chiefs urged to ready quarantine centers against COVID-19

Minister of Development of Disadvantaged Regions, Villages, and Transmigration (PDTT) Abdul Halim Iskandar has called ...

Volunteers to become mainstay for countermeasures against COVID-19

Volunteers of the COVID-19 response task force in villages will become the mainstay in the efforts to prevent and ...

BI maintains public duty, services to mitigate COVID-19 spread

Reflecting on the latest developments in the transmission of COVID-19 in Indonesia, Bank Indonesia (BI) is coordinating ...

3.68 million in Central Java still in poverty

More than 3.68 million people in Central Java Province still live in poverty as of September 2019, the Central ...

Cigarettes contribute to the poverty line: BPS

Cigarettes have become one of the commodities that contributed greatly to the poverty line with a figure of 11.17 ...

Indonesia foils trade in 60kg of crystal meth

Indonesia's National Narcotics Agency (BNN) thwarted a trans-national drug ring's attempt to trade 60 kilograms ...

VP receives two concepts of sharia-compliant economy

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin received two concepts of developing a sharia-compliant economy through rural areas and ...